President Al-Mashat: We will continue to defend our country until every inch of Republic of Yemen is liberated & every usurping occupier is expelled

His Excellency Field Marshal Mahdi al-Mashat, President of the Supreme Political Council, affirmed that 14 October is a commemoration that disturbs the consciences of invaders and new occupiers, and reminds them of the fate of every occupier who sets foot on this pure land that knows only the language of dignity and honor and bows only to God Almighty.

In a speech this evening on the occasion of the 62nd anniversary of the 14 October Revolution, President al-Mashat said: “We will continue to defend our country until every inch of the Republic of Yemen’s territory is liberated and every usurping occupier — who has plundered the nation’s wealth, spilled the blood of its sons, confined their freedoms in secret prisons, and attacked their livelihoods by creating economic crises and causing high prices and shortages of fuel and food — is expelled.”

He extended congratulations to the Leader of the Revolution, Sayyid Abdul Malik Badr al-Din al-Houthi, the Yemeni people, the heroes of the armed forces and security, all comrades-in-arms and jihadi companions, and all partners in the national stance — parties, elites, scholars, sheikhs, dignitaries and citizens, and all free men and women across every front of official and popular work and in all fields of the comprehensive liberation struggle on this occasion.

He noted that 14 October is not an ordinary day in history but rather a glorious dawn that enlightened the paths of freedom and a lasting symbol of Yemeni sovereignty and dignity. He said: “It is a day every Yemeni is honored by, and every person who understands what it means to be free and understands the sanctity of achieving independence — even if it is stained with noble blood.” He added that it is a source of pride that you are the natural continuation of that great day and the lawful heirs of the heroes of the 14 October Revolution who sacrificed so that Yemen would remain free and honorable and so that every invader and occupier would be driven from its pure soil.

He continued: “On this anniversary we ought to recall the essence of the 14 October Revolution and its authentic spirit, and correct the deviations that have crept into its concepts over the years. For decades, the enemies of the revolution and liberation have sought to penetrate our collective consciousness — they distorted the clear features of the revolution and attempted to erase every meaning of liberation and independence for which the heroes sacrificed.”

President al-Mashat pointed out that what those people should have done instead is to consolidate a culture of freedom and reject all forms of guardianship, to raise public awareness against attempts at disguised occupation, to instill a living sensitivity that does not allow such schemes to pass, and to prevent preparing the ground for an environment in which occupation can recur.

He explained that peoples who have tasted the bitterness of invasion and occupation did not stop at commemorating the anniversary; rather they rose to build an environment that repels the ambitions of invaders and fortified themselves with comprehensive strategies at cultural, economic and political levels until they became a strong nation that cannot be broken.

He said: “But instead, they sought to erase the great history of the fighters and revolutionaries who ignited the 14 October Revolution and presented the finest epics. The enemies of the revolution and freedom insisted on falsifying this glorious history and trivializing the sacrifices of our people and the blood of our fathers and grandfathers spilled in every plain, mountain and valley. This has led us to a misleading conceptual chaos in which the new occupier’s mercenaries — shamelessly and without embarrassment — celebrate the 14 October Revolution while flattering the new foreign occupier at the same time; they justify his presence and serve his agendas, as if the cries of the free never reached their ears and as if the pages of history no longer mean anything to them.”

He stressed that “such a fall is a crime that must not be tolerated; it is unbecoming of our youth, our intellectuals, or the bearers of the pen and free voices to remain mere spectators. The national duty today requires all of us to wage the battle of awareness seriously and responsibly, and to make the 14 October Revolution a beacon guiding our comprehensive national liberation struggle against the new colonizers. We must preserve the revolution’s memory from distortion and safeguard its glory and the meaning of its sacrifices.”

His Excellency pointed out that the Yemeni people today have restored the stature of the 14 October Revolution not merely with slogans but with steadfast endurance, proud resilience and heroic resistance to the American–Saudi aggression for ten continuous years — during which their determination did not falter, their will did not break, and they did not back down from their right to freedom and independence by even an iota.

He added: “We have followed with pride the genuine popular interaction from our brothers in the southern governorates with the just cause of Palestine and with the suffering of our steadfast people in the Gaza Strip. This is no surprise for the descendants of 14 October — those who opened their hearts and homes to Palestinian revolutionary fighters and welcomed them in Aden and other areas, making the city of Aden a beacon of Arab–Islamic struggle; it hosted the first office to boycott the Zionist enemy and opened training camps for volunteer mujahideen, providing weapons and logistical support to the Palestinian resistance in its early days when the stance was a field for men, not for posturing.”

He continued: “But it is regrettable and painful at once to see the city of Aden, which used to be a fortress of revolutionaries, today receiving officers from the enemy’s army and the Mossad, and to hear jarring voices from some traitors calling for ‘normalization’ with the criminal Zionist entity — a scene that contradicts the city’s history and its glorious struggle.”

He called on the descendants of the revolutionaries and fighters in Aden, Lahij, Al-Dhale, Abyan, Al-Mahra, Shabwa, Hadhramaut, Marib, Taiz and all Yemeni governorates to perform their honorable historical role and stand united against the mercenaries and the instruments of the Zionists, holding fast to the legacy of the ancestors and carrying the banner of dignity, genuine faith-based identity and Arabism in support of Palestine and in protection of Yemen’s history, its revolution, its principles and its religious identity.

He said: “The full and great harmony between your positions today and the principles of the immortal 14 October Revolution is conclusive evidence of the correctness of your stance and the justice of your cause as you confront aggression and the ongoing American–Saudi siege that has not ceased to this moment, standing with courage and steadfastness alongside the oppressed Palestinian people in the face of the criminal Israeli enemy and those behind it — the Americans and the Western countries. Meanwhile, your adversaries stand in complete opposition — detached from the principles of this revolution, disowning its history and disregarding its sacrifices.”

He added: “While the 14 October Revolution bestows on you medals of honor and pride, it brands with shame and disgrace those faces that have prostituted themselves to the American–Saudi–Emirati aggression and accepted to be cheap instruments in the hands of criminal Zionists, invaders and occupiers. It is enough pride for you that the rifles of the 14 October Revolution, which cleansed the land of British colonialism, are today seen only in your hands — you, the sons of the 21st of September — the true continuation of the authentic Yemeni character: Yemen of faith and wisdom, which over ages has stood as an impregnable barrier to the covetous and defended land and honor, winning freedom and independence by the determination of men and the faith of heroes.”

His Excellency affirmed maintaining full vigilance and readiness, continuing close and diligent follow-up of the developments in implementing the agreement to end the aggression on the Gaza Strip and to allow humanitarian aid in, based on Yemen’s firm religious, moral and principled commitment to supporting the Palestinian people. He said: “We will be ready to respond to any development,” noting that “the sacrifices our people have made are known to God and will only strengthen our resolve and steadfastness on the just stance, no matter the cost.”

He also confirmed working “to develop our military capabilities across all fields and to elevate them so we can confront all of the enemy’s modern military technologies as part of readiness and preparedness for any new developments and to achieve deterrence amid the fierce aggression against our country and nation.”

President al-Mashat urged the Saudi regime to move from mere de-escalation to ending the aggression, siege and occupation and to implement the clear requirements for peace, saying that is the closest solution to preventing those who profiteer from wars among the sons of the nation in service of Israel — because America deploys all sensitivities in the region for Israel, if you are reasonable.

He added: “We stress our full solidarity with the peoples of Lebanon and Syria and all the peoples of the region subject to the Zionist aggression, and we emphasize the necessity of a firm Arab and Islamic stance towards the arrogance and desecration by the usurping entity in the region.”

The President praised the sacrifices of the free and honorable who stood with the Palestinian people, foremost among them Hezbollah, the free people of Iraq and the Islamic Republic of Iran, and commended the honorable stances of free peoples who opposed the genocidal and starvation crimes against our brothers in Gaza, and all countries that cut ties with the Zionist entity or imposed deterrent sanctions on it.